Click here to download ‘Five Seconds’ off the forthcoming album Confess (which is one of our favourites of the year already) out next Friday July 6th via 4AD/Rhythmethod.

SpaceGhostPurrp Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrpis out now via 4AD / Rhythmethod

Interpol frontman Paul Banks new 5-track EP Julian Plenti Lives… is out today via Matador/Rhythmethod, ahead of an album due later in the year.

Available digitally, the EP was released on a limited edition run of CD & vinyl copies and marks the first time Paul Banks has chosen to use his own name to release music by.

The Julian Plenti Lives… EP centres around the new original track ‘Summertime is Coming’ plus original instrumental ‘Cavern Worship’ and cover versions of J Dilla, Frank Sinatra and The Running Man movie theme (by composer Harold Faltermeyer), which demonstrate the breadth of Paul’s influences.

A free download of one of the tracks ‘Summertime is Coming’ is available here.

Track-listing:

‘Perimeter Deactivated’  (The Running Man theme cover - Harold Faltermeyer)
‘Summertime is Coming’ (Original)
‘Mythsysizer’  (J Dilla cover)
‘Fool To Want You’ (Frank Sinatra cover)
‘Cavern Worship’ (Original, instrumental)

Paul Banks Julian Plenti Lives… is out now via Matador/Rhythmethod.

After a sell-out show at the Sydney Opera House earlier this year, 4AD and Rhythmethod are excited to formally announce the release of Efterklang’s fourth album Piramida. The album will be released on Friday 21 September 2012.

The making of Piramida started in unusual fashion in August 2011, when the members of Efterklang (Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg) went on a nine-day audio expedition to an abandoned Russian settlement in Spitsbergen, an Arctic island located just shy of the North Pole. Spitsbergen is home to more polar bears than people and also to the ghost town of Piramida, which was abandoned overnight in the 90s, and today stands as a slowly decaying ruin.

To get a sense of what happened there, Efterklang have produced a video that gives a tantalising insight into this unique journey – it’s the best way to understand how they obtained over 1,000 sounds to sample for the new album. Along with discovering the world’s northernmost grand piano, the trio spent nine days exploring and recording the sounds that would inspire and build the songs on Piramida. Watch the video below.

In May 2012, Efterklang were invited to perform at the Sydney Opera House, where they premiered the album with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. You can watch a magical performance of album track ‘The Ghost’ below.

‘Fineshrine’ might be considered the band’s most anthemic song to date, an impressive feat for those who’ve been paying attention to the band’s output since their inception only a year and a half ago. Megan James’ lyrics are at once grisly and tender, a blood-soaked love song that sits atop Corin Roddick’s mammoth, ear-burrowing production.DOWNLOAD:
PURITY RING – ‘FINESHRINE’ [mp3] 

The video for Twin Shadow’s new single ‘Five Seconds’ was premiered earlier today on a LED billboard in Manhattan’s Time Square as part of an initiative called Art Takes Times Square. Check it out below.

 

New album Confess is out 6 July 2012 via 4AD/Rhythmethod